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Object recognition/detection has always been a challenging topic for both computer scientists and psychologists. We study the categorical object recognition/detection problem from views of both computer vision and human vision, with the focus on feature representation. We propose representing general object categories using multiple types of complementary features, and using AdaBoost to select the most discriminative features. We also present ...

In this study, I reviewed the literature in ePortfolio systems and Web2.0 technologies, discussed design problems in practices, and then developed an Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) for the next-generation ePortfolio systems guided by the design theories, practices, and a design research methodology by Walls et al. (1992). Following this ISDT, I developed KEEP Social Learning Suite (SLS) based on an open-source Carnegie-funded ePortfo...

Variational inequalities (VIs) arise from a wide range of application areas, like mechanics, control theory, engineering, and finance. One of the emerging applications of variational inequalities in finance is valuation of American-style options. An option is a derivative contract where the future payoffs to the buyer and seller of the contract are determined by the price of another security, such as a common stock or a basket of stocks. Ameri...

Previous studies on Chinese students in Japan have devoted much attention to stressors encountered in their overall adjustment, social support for the students and the level of satisfaction with their transitional experiences. However, much of the research has been dependent on quantitative research methodologies, academic adaptation only accounts for one aspect of the investigation, lacking thorough and detailed considerations, moreover, rese...

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population, " have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.

ild Goose Qigong covers the simple yet effective exercises that the Chinese Masters developed centuries ago to keep you young, beautiful and healthy.

Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that mediate many diverse biological processes - the molecular mechanisms of this machinery has fascinated biologists for decades. Analysis of the kinetic and thermodynamic features of these mechanisms could reveal unprecedented aspects of how the machinery function and will eventually lead to a novel understanding of various biological processes.This dissertation comprehensively demonstrates how two un...

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YinYang Bipolar Relativity: A Unifying Theory of Nature, Agents and Causality with Applications in Quantum Computing, Cognitive Informatics and Life Sciences presents real-world applications of YinYang bipolar relativity that focus on quantum computing and agent interaction. This unique work makes complex theoretical topics, such as the ubiquitous effects of quantum entanglement, logically comprehendible to a vast audience.

Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life.Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father's pottery shop. At festivals a chil...

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Document from the year 2010 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, Dresden Technical University (Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology), course: -, language: English, abstract: Soil properties are not only influenced by geographical factors, such as parent material, location and latitude. Often differences in land uses (forest, rubber plantation, paddy field, bare land) are known to have specific eff...

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The energy, petrochemical, aerospace and other industries all require materials able to withstand high temperatures. High temperature strength is defined as the resistance of a material to high temperature deformation and fracture. This important book provides a valuable reference to the main theories of high temperature deformation and fracture and the ways they can be used to predict failure and service life

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This book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China. It inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise, and it points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.

The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power.Xiaoming Zhang fills the gaps in the history of this conflict by basing his research in recently declassified Chinese and Russian archival mat...

Speckle noise is an inherent nature of ultrasound images. In this research a compounding method based on wavelet shrinkage denoising (WSD) is studied. Wavelet shrinkage denoising is adopted not only because the noise can be effectively removed in wavelet domain, but also because the decomposition- reconstruction process could successfully divide the radio-frequency (RF) signals into several subsignals, which can be envelope detected and then s...